The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

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May 22, 2021

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The Recovery Trial, a nation-wide clinical study in the UK, helped identify treatments for Covid 19 in the early months of the pandemic. Tim Harford speaks to Professor Martin Landray of Oxford University whose team established the randomised trial.

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May 22, 2021

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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4

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The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

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